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Famous British Quotes
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp