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Famous British Quotes
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'To wait idly is the worst of conditions.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard