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Famous British Quotes
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens