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Famous British Quotes
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf