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Famous British Quotes
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke