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Famous British Quotes
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster