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Famous British Quotes
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think'.. Michael Caine
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle