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Famous British Quotes
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'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
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling