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Famous British Quotes
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry