Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm