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Famous British Quotes
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli