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Famous British Quotes
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.'.. Winston Churchill
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie