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Famous British Quotes
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as with the mouth, is it firmly shut it again on something solid'.. GK Chesterton
'No man is good enough to be another's master.'.. William Morris
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge