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Famous British Quotes
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.'.. Winston Churchill
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine