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Famous British Quotes
'Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons'.. John Ruskin
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'.. J K Rowling
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley