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Famous British Quotes
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'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
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin