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Famous British Quotes
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon