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Famous British Quotes
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson