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Famous British Quotes
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley