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Famous British Quotes
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin