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Famous British Quotes
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.'.. GK Chesterton
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell