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Famous British Quotes
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon