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Famous British Quotes
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce