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Famous British Quotes
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots