Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming