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Famous British Quotes
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh