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Famous British Quotes
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott