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Famous British Quotes
'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
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott