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Famous British Quotes
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'There are hardly two things more peculiarly English than Welsh rarebit and Irish stew'.. GK Chesterton
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'No man is good enough to be another's master.'.. William Morris
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill