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Famous British Quotes
'Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.'.. Douglas Bader
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria