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Famous British Quotes
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin