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Famous British Quotes
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore