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Famous British Quotes
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan