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Famous British Quotes
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.'.. Charles Lamb
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'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
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli