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Famous British Quotes
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge