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Famous British Quotes
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.'.. W H Auden