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Famous British Quotes
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.'.. Adam Smith
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'.. George Eliot
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon