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Famous British Quotes
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard