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Famous British Quotes
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'Look twice before you leap.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'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
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron