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Famous British Quotes
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin