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Famous British Quotes
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'.. Edmund Burke
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in i'.. George Bernard Shaw