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Famous British Quotes
'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before'.. GK Chesterton
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major