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Famous British Quotes
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli