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Famous British Quotes
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke