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Famous British Quotes
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle