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Famous British Quotes
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin