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Famous British Quotes
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence