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Famous British Quotes
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.'.. T S Eliot
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'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
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris