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Famous British Quotes
'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
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming