British Quotes

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

I know that I am going to die, and I'm ready to do so.

I did not defend myself. I say a life for a life.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.