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Famous British Quotes
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson