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Famous British Quotes
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more'.. Roald Dahl
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham