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Famous British Quotes
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.'.. Ralph Richardson
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.'.. Jonathan Swift