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Famous British Quotes
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke