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Famous British Quotes
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No man is good enough to be another's master.'.. William Morris
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens