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Famous British Quotes
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul'.. Max Beerbohm
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'England expects that every man will do his duty.'.. Horatio Nelson
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'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
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin