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Famous British Quotes
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.'.. W H Auden
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge