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Famous British Quotes
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine