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Famous British Quotes
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more'.. Roald Dahl
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham