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Famous British Quotes
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden