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Famous British Quotes
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan