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Famous British Quotes
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'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
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning