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Famous British Quotes
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill