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Famous British Quotes
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw