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Famous British Quotes
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.'.. Charles Lamb
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens