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Famous British Quotes
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.'.. William Wordsworth
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron