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Famous British Quotes
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.'.. Desmond Morris
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'In every parting there is an image of death.'.. George Eliot
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert