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Famous British Quotes
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon