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Famous British Quotes
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm