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Famous British Quotes
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'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
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge