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Famous British Quotes
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.'.. D H Lawrence
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge