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Famous British Quotes
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman