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Famous British Quotes
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair