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Famous British Quotes
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell