Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as with the mouth, is it firmly shut it again on something solid'.. GK Chesterton
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke