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Famous British Quotes
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan