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Famous British Quotes
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss