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Famous British Quotes
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)