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Famous British Quotes
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'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
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'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
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness'.. John Ruskin
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox