Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling