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Famous British Quotes
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.'.. T S Eliot
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp