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Famous British Quotes
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens