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Famous British Quotes
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris