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Famous British Quotes
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance'.. John Ruskin
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke