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Famous British Quotes
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly