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Famous British Quotes
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan