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Famous British Quotes
'An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.'.. Agatha Christie
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson