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Famous British Quotes
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'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
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge