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Famous British Quotes
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'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
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed