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Famous British Quotes
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper