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Famous British Quotes
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'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
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley