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Famous British Quotes
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. William Blake
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron