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Famous British Quotes
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray