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Famous British Quotes
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.'.. Jonathan Swift
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes