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Famous British Quotes
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'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
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore