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Famous British Quotes
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot