Search Quotes:
Famous British Quotes
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.'.. Agatha Christie
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese