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Famous British Quotes
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.'.. Enoch Powell
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce