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Famous British Quotes
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George