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Famous British Quotes
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl