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Famous British Quotes
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees'.. GK Chesterton
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens