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Famous British Quotes
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.'.. Winston Churchill
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward