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Famous British Quotes
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton