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Famous British Quotes
'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
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge