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Famous British Quotes
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling