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Famous British Quotes
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'.. J K Rowling
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton