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Famous British Quotes
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before'.. GK Chesterton
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle