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Famous British Quotes
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'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
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave