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Famous British Quotes
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'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
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee