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Famous British Quotes
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins
'When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.'.. Enoch Powell
'Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill