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Famous British Quotes
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.'.. Beatrix Potter
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence