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Famous British Quotes
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham