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Famous British Quotes
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.'.. Desmond Morris