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Famous British Quotes
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.'.. W H Auden
'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
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey