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Famous British Quotes
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer