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Famous British Quotes
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth