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Famous British Quotes
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron