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Famous British Quotes
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling