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Famous British Quotes
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare