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Famous British Quotes
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf