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Famous British Quotes
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw