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Famous British Quotes
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'.. Edmund Burke
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'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
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin