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Famous British Quotes
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'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
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde