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Famous British Quotes
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert