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Famous British Quotes
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes