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Famous British Quotes
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'.. George Eliot
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson