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Famous British Quotes
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French