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Famous British Quotes
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'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
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves