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Famous British Quotes
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon