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Famous British Quotes
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley