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Famous British Quotes
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.'.. Neil Kinnock
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw