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Famous British Quotes
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy'.. Christine Keeler
'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
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer