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Famous British Quotes
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy'.. Christine Keeler
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson