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Famous British Quotes
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'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
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott