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Famous British Quotes
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance'.. John Ruskin
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick