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Famous British Quotes
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through'.. Ricky Gervais
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock