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Famous British Quotes
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge