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Famous British Quotes
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.'.. W H Auden
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster