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Famous British Quotes
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'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
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith