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Famous British Quotes
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness'.. John Ruskin
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle