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Famous British Quotes
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli