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Famous British Quotes
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw