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Famous British Quotes
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde