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Famous British Quotes
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.'.. Ralph Richardson
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp