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Famous British Quotes
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think'.. Michael Caine
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope