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Famous British Quotes
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson