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Famous British Quotes
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole
'Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress'.. John Clapham
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot