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Famous British Quotes
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'In every parting there is an image of death.'.. George Eliot
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. William Blake
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson