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Famous British Quotes
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'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
'It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.'.. Thomas Hardy
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie