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Famous British Quotes
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'England expects that every man will do his duty.'.. Horatio Nelson