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Famous British Quotes
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham