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Famous British Quotes
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams