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Famous British Quotes
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'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
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin