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Famous British Quotes
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene