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Famous British Quotes
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria