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Famous British Quotes
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.'.. Enoch Powell