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Famous British Quotes
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron