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Famous British Quotes
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.'.. Enoch Powell
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl