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Famous British Quotes
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.'.. D H Lawrence
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard