British Wit Quotes

#1. I'm beginning to think I need you like I need oxygen

Rachel Gibson

#2. Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

Dwight Garner

#3. The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,
mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

Ralph Peters

#5. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Winston Churchill

#6. Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.

Margaret Atwood

#7. This may sound funny but somewhere in the back of my mind I thought the world would stop for my first day of JH. The day proved me wrong and I've grown to realize that nothing will be quite as I dreamed them up.

Latoya Hunter

#8. I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.

Tina Brown

#9. There's a kind of magical thinking about these kinds of things. Throw away those bad photos before the "magic" attaches to them, so the good ones stand out.

Gretchen Rubin

#10. The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.

Ramana Maharshi

#11. There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.

Christopher Lloyd

#12. Of course those that have charm don't really need brains.

Evelyn Waugh

#13. But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.

Clive Barker

#14. We are not perfect. None of us is. I apologize for that flaw. I thank the governor for giving me a job with a driver.

Zulima Farber

#15. My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

Anthony Kiedis

#16. I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

Paul Simon

#17. I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Stephen Dorff

#18. I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don't want to.

Henry Rollins