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Famous British Quotes
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.'.. Paul McCartney
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson