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Famous British Quotes
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell