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Famous British Quotes
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn