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Famous British Quotes
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees'.. GK Chesterton
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'.. William Shakespeare
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie