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Famous British Quotes
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.'.. Charles Dickens
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward