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Famous British Quotes
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens