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Famous British Quotes
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George