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Famous British Quotes
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'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
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon