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Famous British Quotes
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson