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Famous British Quotes
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'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
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard