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Famous British Quotes
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'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
'A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.'.. GK Chesterton
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden