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Famous British Quotes
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley