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Famous British Quotes
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin