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Famous British Quotes
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith