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Famous British Quotes
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward