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Famous British Quotes
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott