Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through'.. Ricky Gervais
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw