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Famous British Quotes
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.'.. W H Auden
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin