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Famous British Quotes
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant