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Famous British Quotes
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw