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Famous British Quotes
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win'.. GK Chesterton
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin