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Famous British Quotes
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night'.. Joyce Grenfell
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.'.. Douglas Bader
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr