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Famous British Quotes
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'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
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'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
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in i'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw