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Famous British Quotes
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole