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Famous British Quotes
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'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
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton