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Famous British Quotes
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc