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Famous British Quotes
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe