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Famous British Quotes
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'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
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill