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Famous British Quotes
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'.. George Eliot
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'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
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon