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Famous British Quotes
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'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
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill