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Famous British Quotes
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'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
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm