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Famous British Quotes
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'.. Harold Macmillan
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand