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Famous British Quotes
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as with the mouth, is it firmly shut it again on something solid'.. GK Chesterton
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming