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Famous British Quotes
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.'.. George Orwell