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Famous British Quotes
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte