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Famous British Quotes
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh