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Famous British Quotes
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth