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Famous British Quotes
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In the end Americans always end up doing the right thing, after they have eliminated all the other possibilities'.. Winston Churchill
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'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 wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin