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Famous British Quotes
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.'.. Paul McCartney
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell