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Famous British Quotes
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'Desperate affairs require desperate measures.'.. Horatio Nelson
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger