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Famous British Quotes
'Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night'.. Joyce Grenfell
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'In every parting there is an image of death.'.. George Eliot
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde