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Famous British Quotes
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie