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Famous British Quotes
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion'.. Thomas Carlyle