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Famous British Quotes
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'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
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence