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Famous British Quotes
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II