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Famous British Quotes
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie