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Famous British Quotes
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore