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Famous British Quotes
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden