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Famous British Quotes
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.'.. Douglas Bader
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher