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Famous British Quotes
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill