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Famous British Quotes
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton