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Famous British Quotes
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'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
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'When a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour the writing is on the wall'.. Alan Bennett