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Famous British Quotes
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin