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Famous British Quotes
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'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
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert