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Famous British Quotes
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot