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Famous British Quotes
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I