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Famous British Quotes
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.'.. Charles Dickens
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty