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Famous British Quotes
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot