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Famous British Quotes
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge