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Famous British Quotes
'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
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Desperate affairs require desperate measures.'.. Horatio Nelson
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn