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Famous British Quotes
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul'.. Max Beerbohm
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'.. Harold Macmillan
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams