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Famous British Quotes
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons'.. John Ruskin
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle