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Famous British Quotes
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry