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Famous British Quotes
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley