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Famous British Quotes
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson