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Famous British Quotes
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.'.. Charles Dickens
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley