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Famous British Quotes
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill