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Famous British Quotes
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson