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Famous British Quotes
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin