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Famous British Quotes
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin