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Famous British Quotes
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw