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Famous British Quotes
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne