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Famous British Quotes
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'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
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson