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Famous British Quotes
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.'.. D H Lawrence
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy