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Famous British Quotes
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad