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Famous British Quotes
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'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
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell