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Famous British Quotes
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'Never in the way, and never out of the way.'.. Charles II
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats