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Famous British Quotes
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp