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Famous British Quotes
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham