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Famous British Quotes
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill