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Famous British Quotes
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell