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Famous British Quotes
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden