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Famous British Quotes
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte