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Famous British Quotes
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.'.. William Wordsworth
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien