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Famous British Quotes
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott