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Famous British Quotes
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese