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Famous British Quotes
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.'.. George Orwell
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens