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Famous British Quotes

'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton

'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton

'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill

'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe

'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare

'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly

'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)

'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli

'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne

'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney

'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot

'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot

'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon

'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole

'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor

'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper

'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells

'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy

'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells

'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden

'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I

'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese

'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth

'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth

'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin

'The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.'.. Somerset Maugham

'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne

'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell

'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin

'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot

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