Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees'.. GK Chesterton
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer