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Famous British Quotes
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson