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Famous British Quotes
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'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
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'In the end Americans always end up doing the right thing, after they have eliminated all the other possibilities'.. Winston Churchill
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson