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Famous British Quotes
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.'.. Beatrix Potter
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'.. George Eliot
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens