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Famous British Quotes
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'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
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe