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Famous British Quotes
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell