Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams