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Famous British Quotes
'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
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.'.. Neil Kinnock
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm