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Famous British Quotes
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost