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Famous British Quotes
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'.. J K Rowling
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare