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Famous British Quotes
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win'.. GK Chesterton
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese