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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.'.. Douglas Bader
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot