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Famous British Quotes
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'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
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster