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Famous British Quotes
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Good order is the foundation of all things.'.. Edmund Burke
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake