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Famous British Quotes
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift