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Famous British Quotes
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'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
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon