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Famous British Quotes
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'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