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Famous British Quotes
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'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
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw