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Famous British Quotes
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'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
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke