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Famous British Quotes
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens