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Famous British Quotes
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.'.. Charles Lamb
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli