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Famous British Quotes
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence