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Famous British Quotes
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon