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Famous British Quotes
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.'.. Charles Darwin
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as with the mouth, is it firmly shut it again on something solid'.. GK Chesterton
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'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
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift