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Famous British Quotes
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman