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Famous British Quotes
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant