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Famous British Quotes
'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
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley