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Famous British Quotes
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton