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Famous British Quotes
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French