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Famous British Quotes
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle