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Famous British Quotes
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley