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Famous British Quotes
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey