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Famous British Quotes
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'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
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill