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Famous British Quotes
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'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)
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats