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Famous British Quotes
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'Never in the way, and never out of the way.'.. Charles II
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle