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Famous British Quotes
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.'.. Stephen Hawking
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley