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Famous British Quotes
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot