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Famous British Quotes
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney