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Famous British Quotes
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.'.. T S Eliot
'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
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare