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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.'.. GK Chesterton
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott