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Famous British Quotes
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'.. William Shakespeare
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge