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Famous British Quotes
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'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
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'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
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams