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Famous British Quotes
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden