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Famous British Quotes
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde