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Famous British Quotes

'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan

'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward

'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens

'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox

'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot

'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley

'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

'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp

'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton

'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton

'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton

'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More

'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare

'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best

'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot

'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham

'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine

'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin

'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad

'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams

'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey

'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli

'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward

'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton

'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough

'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin

'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan

'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell

'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp

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