Top 93 Licence Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.
Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.
As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create.
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee.
We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.
Like having your own licence to print money.
I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do.
Every Frenchie has inherited their own way of making ratatouille, usually just as maman used to make. Well, my mum never made one, so I consider that my licence to make mine as I please.
The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'
Shouting on TV feels like it almost gives viewers licence to do it in real life.
I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.
We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.
The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us.
I won championships and races and earned my super-licence to get to Formula One. Of course, I was very fortunate to be in the position I was in, but at the same time, I delivered.
I would describe my driving style as calm authority, but my wife would call it demented. In my defence I've got a clean licence so probably the best way to describe it is crafty.
I don't have a TV licence. I don't watch except on catch-up.
I failed my HGV licence three times.
I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.
I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.
I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.
I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
When I finished boxing, all that was available was commentating. But that's not me. I've got too much artistic licence to get out.
The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.
I try to cover three food groups at breakfast. I see that as a licence to eat rubbish for the rest of the day. Touring equals a lot of sandwiches.
At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.
It is a hugely embarrassing situation to find myself in, I'm a professional driver and to be caught speeding and to have my licence taken away for speeding, it would have an effect on my reputation.
In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don't have to be accurate.
Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.
What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
I have a Category 4 Pyrotechnics licence and I do firework displays.
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
Getting small things like Visa or driving licence should be made easier as we, in financial service sectors, are dealing with financial regulations and tax constraints.
It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker.
People pay their licence fee in this country because people believe that we should have public service broadcast programming. Of course, there are lots of different ways you could do that.
Crash Holly's so short, you can see his feet on his driver's licence photo.
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
So many older people are on a very small budget and just wouldn't be able to afford a TV licence.
Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
Obviously, the BBC is funded by licence-payers. If you are paying for a TV licence, when you see what people are paid, then you know you're funding that.
Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence, and I drive quickly sometimes.
I don't feel 50. I'm still ambitious, and I've only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it's a huge challenge.
Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day.
I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.
