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Famous British Quotes
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'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
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie