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Famous British Quotes
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.'.. W H Auden
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard