Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'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
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift