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Famous British Quotes
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill