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Famous British Quotes
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher