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Famous British Quotes
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese