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Famous British Quotes
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Never trust a man who does not have a single redeeming vice'.. Winston Churchill
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne