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Famous British Quotes
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'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