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Famous British Quotes
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.'.. GK Chesterton
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb