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Famous British Quotes
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'.. J K Rowling
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'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
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry