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Famous British Quotes
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Beaumaris is second to none'.. George Borrow
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift