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Famous British Quotes
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'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
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan