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Famous British Quotes
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.'.. Ralph Richardson
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm