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Famous British Quotes
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster