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Famous British Quotes
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'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
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress'.. John Clapham
'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
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'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
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West