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Famous British Quotes
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.'.. T S Eliot
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome