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Famous British Quotes
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'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
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson