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Famous British Quotes
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'.. William Shakespeare
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan