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Famous British Quotes
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron