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Famous British Quotes
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer