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Famous British Quotes
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden