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Famous British Quotes
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare