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Famous British Quotes
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.'.. Desmond Morris
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon