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Famous British Quotes
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'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
'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle