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Famous British Quotes
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II