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Famous British Quotes
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through'.. Ricky Gervais
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost