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Famous British Quotes
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan