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Famous British Quotes
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before'.. GK Chesterton
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher