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Famous British Quotes
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'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
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'In the end Americans always end up doing the right thing, after they have eliminated all the other possibilities'.. Winston Churchill
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli