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Famous British Quotes
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through'.. Ricky Gervais
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson