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Famous British Quotes
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron