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Famous British Quotes
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.'.. Ralph Richardson
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith