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Famous British Quotes
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'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
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry