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Famous British Quotes
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If we have to have Tories, good luck to her. She is the best man among them'.. Barbara Castle
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey