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Famous British Quotes
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley