Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy'.. Christine Keeler
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook