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Famous British Quotes
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness'.. John Ruskin
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan