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Famous British Quotes
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.'.. Douglas Bader
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley