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Famous British Quotes
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster