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Famous British Quotes
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons'.. John Ruskin
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley