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Famous British Quotes
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris