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Famous British Quotes
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'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
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through'.. Ricky Gervais
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett