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Famous British Quotes
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan