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Famous British Quotes
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour the writing is on the wall'.. Alan Bennett
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward