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Famous British Quotes
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'In the end Americans always end up doing the right thing, after they have eliminated all the other possibilities'.. Winston Churchill
'No man is good enough to be another's master.'.. William Morris
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier