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Famous British Quotes
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge