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Famous British Quotes
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon