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Famous British Quotes
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'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
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli