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Famous British Quotes
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.'.. William Wordsworth
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge