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Famous British Quotes
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle