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Famous British Quotes
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win'.. GK Chesterton
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill