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Famous British Quotes
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin