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Famous British Quotes
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. William Blake
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming