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Famous British Quotes
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The hard part is getting to the top of Page 1'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant