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Famous British Quotes
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm