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Famous British Quotes
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry