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Famous British Quotes
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'.. J K Rowling
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin