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Famous British Quotes
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'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
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'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
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan