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Famous British Quotes
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross