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Famous British Quotes
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden