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Famous British Quotes
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'.. J K Rowling
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'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
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'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
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.'.. Enoch Powell
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot