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Famous British Quotes
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in i'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle