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Famous British Quotes
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.'.. George Orwell
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'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
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer