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Famous British Quotes
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'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
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'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
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.'.. Thomas Hardy