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Famous British Quotes
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw