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Famous British Quotes
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad