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Famous British Quotes
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.'.. Elizabeth I
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'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
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw