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Famous British Quotes
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance'.. John Ruskin
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke