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Famous British Quotes
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'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
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon