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Famous British Quotes
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker