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Famous British Quotes
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins