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Famous British Quotes
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.'.. Desmond Morris
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge