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Famous British Quotes
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'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
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen