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Famous British Quotes
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy'.. Christine Keeler
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien