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Famous British Quotes
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin