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Famous British Quotes
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'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
'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
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle