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Famous British Quotes
'An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.'.. Agatha Christie
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling