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Famous British Quotes
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter