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Famous British Quotes
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'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
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson