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Famous British Quotes
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde