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Famous British Quotes
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw