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Famous British Quotes
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.'.. GK Chesterton
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton