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Famous British Quotes
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'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
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton