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Famous British Quotes
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge