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Famous British Quotes
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith