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Famous British Quotes
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds