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Famous British Quotes
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson