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Famous British Quotes
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'.. Julian Barnes
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'In the end Americans always end up doing the right thing, after they have eliminated all the other possibilities'.. Winston Churchill
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin