English Quotes

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

He that is rich is wise.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

I support British designers as much as I can.

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not.

I love bold, colorful party dresses because they don't need accessories. Just throw one on and you're done.

I just don't crave junk food.

I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official!

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.