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Famous British Quotes
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.'.. Neil Kinnock
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill