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Famous British Quotes
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'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
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes