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Famous British Quotes
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby