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Famous British Quotes
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake