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Famous British Quotes
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare