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Famous British Quotes
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns