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Famous British Quotes
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy'.. Christine Keeler
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves