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Famous British Quotes
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'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
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton