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Famous British Quotes
'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
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift