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Famous British Quotes
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney