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Famous British Quotes
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.'.. Ralph Richardson
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton