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Famous British Quotes
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.'.. Paul McCartney
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson