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Famous British Quotes
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'In every parting there is an image of death.'.. George Eliot
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden