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Famous British Quotes
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'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
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry