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Famous British Quotes
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith