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Famous British Quotes
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees'.. GK Chesterton
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope