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Famous British Quotes
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys