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Famous British Quotes
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington