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Famous British Quotes
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning