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Famous British Quotes
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill