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Famous British Quotes
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'Beaumaris is second to none'.. George Borrow
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne