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Famous British Quotes
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton