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Famous British Quotes
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy