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Famous British Quotes
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'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
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton