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Famous British Quotes
'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
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'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
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke