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Famous British Quotes
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'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
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov