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Famous British Quotes
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'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
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley