Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'.. Julian Barnes
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone