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Famous British Quotes
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill