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Famous British Quotes
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.'.. Charles Dickens
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'Good order is the foundation of all things.'.. Edmund Burke
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw