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Famous British Quotes
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle