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Famous British Quotes
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'.. Edmund Burke
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.'.. Charles Lamb
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf