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Famous British Quotes
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock