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Famous British Quotes
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood