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Famous British Quotes
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne