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Famous British Quotes
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'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
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore