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Famous British Quotes
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl