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Famous British Quotes
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'.. Julian Barnes
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'.. George Eliot
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor