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Famous British Quotes
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens