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Famous British Quotes
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm