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Famous British Quotes
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson