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Famous British Quotes
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis