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Famous British Quotes
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.'.. Charles Darwin
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill'.. Peter Ustinov
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'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
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne