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Famous British Quotes
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'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
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'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
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde