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Famous British Quotes
'Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.'.. W H Auden
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think'.. Michael Caine
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey