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Famous British Quotes
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson