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Famous British Quotes
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'The hard part is getting to the top of Page 1'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson