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Famous British Quotes
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as with the mouth, is it firmly shut it again on something solid'.. GK Chesterton
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb