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Famous British Quotes
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf