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Famous British Quotes
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.'.. John Ruskin
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron