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Famous British Quotes
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'In every parting there is an image of death.'.. George Eliot
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I