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Famous British Quotes
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night'.. Joyce Grenfell
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr