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Famous British Quotes
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.'.. Ralph Richardson
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden