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Famous British Quotes
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan