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Famous British Quotes
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more'.. Roald Dahl
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton