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Famous British Quotes
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst