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Famous British Quotes
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill'.. Peter Ustinov
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli