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Famous British Quotes
'Beaumaris is second to none'.. George Borrow
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare