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Famous British Quotes
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'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
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde