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Famous British Quotes
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French