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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'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
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith