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Famous British Quotes
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'England expects that every man will do his duty.'.. Horatio Nelson
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes