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Famous British Quotes
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'Never trust a man who does not have a single redeeming vice'.. Winston Churchill
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke