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Famous British Quotes
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward