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Famous British Quotes
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas