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Famous British Quotes
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling