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Famous British Quotes
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw