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Famous British Quotes
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy'.. Christine Keeler
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'.. Edmund Burke
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons'.. John Ruskin
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'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
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe