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Famous British Quotes
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To wait idly is the worst of conditions.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell