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Famous British Quotes
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton