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Famous British Quotes
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes