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Famous British Quotes
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas