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Famous British Quotes
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly