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Famous British Quotes
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'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
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell