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Famous British Quotes
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as with the mouth, is it firmly shut it again on something solid'.. GK Chesterton
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb