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Famous British Quotes
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine