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Famous British Quotes
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.'.. Adam Smith
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'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
'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
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine