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Famous British Quotes
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare