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Famous British Quotes
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'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)
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness'.. John Ruskin