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Famous British Quotes
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance'.. John Ruskin