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Famous British Quotes
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons'.. John Ruskin
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard