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Famous British Quotes
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw