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Famous British Quotes
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde