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Famous British Quotes
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns