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Famous British Quotes
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The hard part is getting to the top of Page 1'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Desperate affairs require desperate measures.'.. Horatio Nelson
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard