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Famous British Quotes
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through'.. Ricky Gervais
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis