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Famous British Quotes
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'.. William Shakespeare
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin