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Famous British Quotes
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'Beaumaris is second to none'.. George Borrow
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss