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Famous British Quotes
'The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill'.. Peter Ustinov
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill