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Famous British Quotes
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as with the mouth, is it firmly shut it again on something solid'.. GK Chesterton
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'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
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle