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Famous British Quotes
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams