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Famous British Quotes
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde