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Famous British Quotes
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'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
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe