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Famous British Quotes
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness'.. John Ruskin
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli