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Famous British Quotes
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle