Quotes by Category:
Art & Culture
Countries
Defects
Feelings
 Politics
Nature
Science & Technology
Society
 Time
Thought & Reason

Various
Virtues
Top Quotes
Age
America
Business
Death
Economy
Education
 Freedom
Friendship
Humankind
Life
Literature
Love
 Music
Politics
Proverbs
Religion
Truth
Work
Quotes by Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Alan Greenspan
Albert Einstein
Anonymous
Aristotle
Barack Obama
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin
Bill Gates
Chinese Proverb
Francis Bacon
F. Rochefoucauld
F. Nietzsche
George Bernard Shaw
George Eliot
 George W.Bush
Gilbert K.Chesterton
Henry D.Thoreau
Henry L. Mencken
Hillary Clinton
Johann W.Goethe
Lord Byron
Marcus T.Cicero
Margaret Thatcher
Mark Twain
Matt Groening
Montaigne
Nelson Mandela
Oliver Goldsmith
Orison S.Marden
 Plutarch
Proverb
Rainer M. Rilke
Samuel Butler
Samuel T.Coleridge
Stephen Hawking
Steve Jobs
Thomas B.Macaulay
Tony Blair
Virginia Woolf
Vladimir Putin
Walt Disney
Warren Buffett
William Penn
William Wordsworth
Quotes by Nationality:
Albanian
American
Arabian
Argentinian
Austrian
Brazilian
British
Canadian
Chilean
Chinese
Colombian
Cuba
Czech
 Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Indian
Iranian
Irish
Israeli
Italian
Italy
Japanese
 Jewish
Nepal
New Zealand
Polish
Portuguese
Roman
Romanian
Russian
Scottish
South African
Spanish
Swiss
Quotes by Profession:
Author
Businessman
Cartoonist
Comedian
Economist
Educator
Essayist
 Journalist
Leader
Mathematician
Musician
Novelist
Painter
Philosopher
 Physicist
Poet
Politician
Scientist
Writer
Anonymous
Proverb
Citas sobre autores de British

British

Popular quotes, proverbs and sayings by Nationality

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Alcoholism
FacebookTwitter
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Alcoholism
FacebookTwitter
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Alcoholism
FacebookTwitter
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Alcoholism
FacebookTwitter
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Ambition
FacebookTwitter
As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Ambition
FacebookTwitter
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Antipathy
FacebookTwitter
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Argument
FacebookTwitter
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Argument
FacebookTwitter
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Beauty
FacebookTwitter
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Bereavement
FacebookTwitter
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
» More quotes from: William Penn about: Boredom
FacebookTwitter