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Famous British Quotes
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'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
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge