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Famous British Quotes
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson