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Famous British Quotes
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp