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Famous British Quotes
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris