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Famous British Quotes
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'If we have to have Tories, good luck to her. She is the best man among them'.. Barbara Castle
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome