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Famous British Quotes
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift