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Famous British Quotes
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'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
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon