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Famous British Quotes
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'Desperate affairs require desperate measures.'.. Horatio Nelson
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria