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Famous British Quotes
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'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
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb