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Famous British Quotes
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'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
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson