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Famous British Quotes
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison