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Famous British Quotes
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill