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Famous British Quotes
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'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
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.'.. Paul McCartney
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov