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Famous British Quotes
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.'.. D H Lawrence
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot