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Famous British Quotes
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'.. William Shakespeare
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.'.. W H Auden
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell