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Famous British Quotes
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly