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Famous British Quotes
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There are hardly two things more peculiarly English than Welsh rarebit and Irish stew'.. GK Chesterton
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard