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Famous British Quotes
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.'.. George Orwell
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare