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Famous British Quotes
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'If we have to have Tories, good luck to her. She is the best man among them'.. Barbara Castle
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney