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Famous British Quotes
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.'.. W H Auden
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill