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Famous British Quotes
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'Look twice before you leap.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin