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Famous British Quotes
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'No man is good enough to be another's master.'.. William Morris
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling