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Famous British Quotes
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'When a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour the writing is on the wall'.. Alan Bennett