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Famous British Quotes
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill