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Famous British Quotes
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells