British Quotes

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

The Beatles will go on and on.

America has everything, why should they want us.

We were the Spice Boys.

Love one another.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

The Beatles will exist without us.

With our love, we could save the world.

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.