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Famous British Quotes
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle