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Famous British Quotes
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy'.. Christine Keeler
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan