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Famous British Quotes
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave