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Famous British Quotes
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more'.. Roald Dahl
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot