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Famous British Quotes
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis