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Famous British Quotes
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'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
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott