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Famous British Quotes
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.'.. D H Lawrence
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden